More emerging playwrights from Shakespeare’s Sister Co.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages, or only for hours, nobody can say. ~ Virginia Woolf, SSC Patron Saint, A Room of One’s Own

The quote above and the photo at right introduce an email from Shakespeare’s Sister Company announcing its Aug. 6 production of emerging playwright, Shellen Lubin’s, new full-length play, War Orphan.

Featuring Cynthia Enfield, Anthony J. Fusco, Matthew Gandolfo, Kris Lundberg and Susan Merson, War Orphan explores two friends’ journeys through love, family and sexual identity from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Showtime is 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at The Delancey, 168 Delancey Street (between Clinton and Attorney). The event is free and is for audience members 21 and over.

It is week seven in the company’s 2012 emerging women playwrights reading series. The final reading of the series will be Aug. 13 and will feature the company’s Artistic Director, Kris Lundberg’s, Muse.

The Shakespeare’s Sister Company is a not-for-profit theater organization dedicated to women in the arts.